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figment

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
figment /ˈfɪgm(ə)nt/

▶noun a thing believed to be real but existing only in the imagination.

– origin ME (denoting an invented statement): from L. figmentum, rel. to fingere ‘form, contrive’; cf. feign and fiction.

'figment' also found in these Oxford entries:

feign - fiction - phantom

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